Opinion: Efforts to save the hospital campus on Ellis Island are imperative to understanding the largest mass migration in human history.

Isabel Belarsky was one of the millions of people who were processed on Ellis Island before its immigration facility closed in 1954. In 2014, she told the BBC about reaching the gateway to the US ...

READ MORE: White House officials meet with Mayor Eric Adams to collaborate on asylum seeker crisis response Most of the families on Ellis Island said they are still in shelters. Some are even ...

ELLIS ISLAND (WABC) -- With the stroke of a pen, Juliana Lopez is one step closer to the American dream - filling out Form 1-589, the official application for political asylum. "I had to leave ...

Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK CITY (PIX11) – Ellis Island, first an immigration hub and now a historic archive, will now be transformed ...

Today, I would like to remind you about the Old Way that the United States used to do immigration — what I will call the Ellis Island system. The rules at Ellis Island, circa 1910, were simple ...

Between 1892 and 1954, more than 12 million immigrants passed through Ellis Island hoping to start a new life in America. Situated between New York and New Jersey, the historic site was often the ...